Philip Graham Reading Tour
Professor Philip Graham will be reading from his new book,The Moon, Come Down to Earth at several universities and bookstores this fall. For more information on dates and times, visit mcsweeneys.net.
Professor Philip Graham will be reading from his new book,The Moon, Come Down to Earth at several universities and bookstores this fall. For more information on dates and times, visit mcsweeneys.net.
Illinois M.F.A. students Dana Burchfield (poetry), Heather Salus (poetry), and Eric Tanyavutti (fiction) read from their work.
Creative Writing faculty member John Griswold reads from his debut novel, A Democracy of Ghosts, which was published in the summer of 2009 by Wordcraft of Oregon.
Two authors from the current issue of Ninth Letter read from their work
Seth Fried’s short stories have appeared twice in Ninth Letter, as well as in McSweeney’s, Missouri Review, One Story, and many other publications. His story in the current issue of Ninth Letter is an excerpt from Animalcula: A Young Scientist’s Guide to New Creatures.
Chris Wiberg, a former assistant editor at Ninth Letter, is a Chicago-based writer whose fiction has appeared recently in Folio and the North Atlantic Review. He received his MFA from the University of Illinois, and teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago's Graham School for General Studies. His short essay about Election Night 2008 appears in the current issue of Ninth Letter.
Creative Writing faculty member Philip Graham reads from his new book, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon (Univ. of Chicago Press), an expanded edition of his series of dispatches originally published on McSweeney's online.
Guest readers from the Bowling Green State University M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program will join Illinois M.F.A. students Aaron Burch (fiction) and Sara Gelston (poetry) in this final reading of the VOICE fall series.
Joy Harjo is the Fall 2009 Artist-in-Residence in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her books of poetry include How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton & Co., 2002); A Map to the Next World: Poems (2000); The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994), which received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award; In Mad Love and War (1990), which received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; Secrets from the Center of the World (1989); She Had Some Horses (1983); and What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979). She had received the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Illinois M.F.A. students Brian Kornell (fiction), Sara McWhorter (poetry), and Micah Riecker (fiction) read from their work.
Keith Lee Morris is the author of The Dart League King (Tin House Books, 2008), The Greyhound God, and The Best Seats in the House: Stories (both from University of Nevada Press). His stories have appeared in many publications including A Public Space, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, Cincinnati Review, New England Review, and Best New Stories from the South. He teaches at Clemson University. This event is co-sponsored by Ninth Letter and the Carr Reading series.
University of Illinois Press author and National Poetry Series winner Oni Buchanan, author of What Animal, along with special guests Donna Stonecipher (The Cosmopolitan, Coffee House Press) and Tyehimba Jess (Leadbelly, (Verse Press, 2005), will give a poetry reading in honor of National Poetry Month 2009.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) and Drown (1996), will be appearing at the University of Illinois as part of the Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jr. Lecture Series. Sponsored by the Latina/Latino Studies Program with support from the Carr Reading Series.
.Seven University of Illinois Creative Writing graduate students read from their thesis work. Featuring fiction writers Brian Keyes, Aaron Madrigal, and Arley McNeney, and poets Lillian Bertram, Jaime Brunton, Russell Evatt, and Lara Mann
. Sponsored by Creative Writing and the Department of English.University of Illinois graduate students read from their work. Featuring poets Matt Minicucci and Ashley Booth and fiction writers Crystal Thomas and Brian Kornell.
.Quraysh Ali Lansana is author of They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems and Southside Rain, as well as a children's book and two poetry chapbooks. He is the editor of Glenco/McGraw-Hill's African American Literature Reader and of two anthologies of literary works from Chicago's award-winning youth arts program, Gallery 37. This event is sponsored by the Carr Reading Series.
Authors Kathleen Rooney and Kyle Minor will give a reading from their new books Live Nude Girls and In the Devil's Territory at the Illini Union Bookstore, as part of their national booktour, along with guest reader Jodee Stanley, editor of Ninth Letter
.Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. Her latest novel, Bridge of Sand appears in March from Houghton Mifflin. Her Writing Fiction : A Guide to Narrative Craft, is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and her multi-genre Imaginative Writing is in preparation for a third edition. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of the Florida State University. She divides her time among Florida, Wisconsin, and London.
.University of Illinois Creative Writing graduate students read from their work. Featuring fiction writers Aaron Burch and Lindsey Drager, and poet Sean Karns
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